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This was a bit of a mixed bag reading experience. At first, I wasn't sure what exactly the book was getting at, as it started highly biographical-- something I wasn't looking for. As we proceed, however, O'Neill starts looking grounding the historical context in the current pushes to remove confederacy monuments. At the end, he also really brings it home in terms of the ideas of how these monuments aren't just history divorced from their racist origins. He talks about the fractured way Americans view our own history and highlights this by speaking to defenders of monuments and those who are not only fighting symbols but systems.
That said, the presentation wasn't very uniform. It didn't always flow well and you ended up with chapters that were much drier than others.
This is also framed with O'Neil, a white man, wrestling with this history. Anyone who has ever experience racism as a non-white person will find this a difficult perspective to access.